Title
A novel approach to high frequency radar ship tracking exploiting aspect diversity
Abstract
Low-power High-Frequency Surface-Wave (HFSW) radars, designed for oceanic applications, are promising tools also for long-range surveillance in open-water Multi-Target Tracking (MTT) applications. This paper focuses on the fusion of multiple aspects over single-perspective systems. The single-sensor tracking steps, made up by the Joint Probabilistic Data Association (JPDA) rule and the Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF), are followed by a Track-to-Track association and Fusion (T2TF) strategy. Tracking performance improvements are investigated using real data collected by two simultaneously operated HFSW-radars.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352578
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Keywords
Field
DocType
Kalman filters,oceanographic equipment,oceanographic techniques,remote sensing by radar,HFSW radars,JPDA rule,Joint Probabilistic Data Association,MTT applications,aspect diversity,fusion strategy,high frequency radar ship tracking,low-power high-frequency surface-wave radars,oceanic applications,open-water MultiTarget Tracking applications,single-perspective systems,single-sensor tracking steps,track-to-track association strategy,unscented Kalman filter,HFSW radar,JPDA,MTT,UKF,multi-sensor data fusion
Radar,Computer vision,Radar tracker,Computer science,Remote sensing,Man-portable radar,Kalman filter,Data association,Artificial intelligence,Probabilistic logic
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2153-6996 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-1158-8
978-1-4673-1158-8
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.43
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paolo Braca146746.44
Michele Vespe216614.03
Salvatore Maresca3536.22
Jochen Horstmann422544.58